It might be handy but it’s not exactly healthy. The door of one’s fridge is often the first place you’ll find a couple of litres of milk, but those of us guilty of storing it there have been doing it all wrong, it would appear. According to a recent Good Housekeeping guide on how to […]

9 years ago

March might have arrived but there’s no sign of spring just yet. We’re officially into spring, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it Ireland given the weather we’ve been experiencing of late. Following the havoc caused by Storm Doris last week, there would appear to be no let-up in the wintry conditions, with Met Éireann […]

9 years ago

David Attenborough, eat your heart out. Such was the overwhelming impact made by Planet Earth 2 on the BBC before Christmas that there was plenty of excitement when TG4 announced that they would be broadcasting an Irish version, titled Éire Fhiáin. Ireland might not be as exotic as some of the destinations featured in Planet […]

9 years ago

Leesiders will be up in arms over this. It’s no secret that the people of Cork are a notoriously proud bunch; hence why you’ll often hear it referred to as ‘The People’s Republic’ or ‘The Real Capital’. Though tucked away on a small island on the Atlantic in western Europe, a lot of Cork people […]

9 years ago

So popular was the service, in fact, that Father Paddy Mooney was unable to talk to CNN due to his busy schedule. If you happened to be a stranger passing by St.Patrick’s Church in Glenamaddy on Wednesday, you might have been forgiven for wondering why exactly there was a line of cars forming an orderly […]

9 years ago

Talkin’ softball. After it was recently revealed that ‘Homer at the Bat’ would be given a special honour at the Baseball Hall of Fame later this year, we thought it fitting to test how well fans of The Simpsons remember one of the greatest episodes of all time. Hint: Singing the song will help.

9 years ago

Start getting excited. The first acts confirmed the play Longitude 2017 have been revealed, including Mumford & Sons, who will headline the festival on Sunday. Included amongst the acts revealed by Gentlemen of the Road, partners of Longitude and its sister festival Latitude, are Baaba Maal, Jack Garratt, Glass Animals and Lucy Rose. We're very […]

9 years ago

Unfortunately for the rest of the world, it’s only available in the US for now. YouTube has officially entered the world of on-demand television, having announced the launch of YouTube TV on Tuesday. Fresh from announcing that one billion hours of YouTube is watched around the world EVERY DAY, YouTube TV was officially launched on […]

9 years ago

The phrase ‘broke the Internet’ became annoying a long time ago but it seems to have actually happened tonight. If you’ve been struggling with dodgy Internet this evening, then you’re certainly not the only one, with an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage causing havoc online. The AWS S3 storage service, used by hundreds of thousands […]

9 years ago

This looks like a must-watch for all surfers in Ireland and beyond. With some of the best waves on Earth, it’s no surprise that Ireland has proved a popular choice with filmmakers making movies about surfing over the years. Waveriders, for example, released in 2008, featured the famous ‘Aileens’ wave at the Cliffs of Moher, […]

9 years ago

Including an inevitable visit to a pub. We can’t profess to having known an awful lot about a game titled Kim Kardashian: Hollywood until now, but that was before she made an important announcement to her millions of social media followers on Tuesday. Kim revealed that she was adding an Irish update to the game, […]

9 years ago

If you’re looking for a new job, this might be a good place to start. Sales managers, registered nurses and software engineers and developers have the greatest number of job opportunities available to them in Ireland, according to jobs website Indeed. Announced on the same day it was revealed that unemployment in Ireland fell to […]

9 years ago

If giving up sweets or booze isn’t your thing, you might want to give this a go instead. Today being Pancake Tuesday, Irish people make grand promises about making the ultimate sacrifice and giving up some of their favourite things for the next 40 days or so, often giving up on said promises by afternoon […]

9 years ago

Another day, another rumour about what we can expect from the iPhone 8. Such is the prevalence and popularity of the iPhone worldwide that the months leading up to the release of a new one are full of speculation about what we can expect from the finished product. And the iPhone 8, to be released […]

9 years ago

Have you got what it takes? 21 seasons in and still going strong, Ros na Rún will soon return to TG4 for a 22nd season and the station is looking for aspiring and actresses to join its cast. An array of new actors are being sought by TG4 to fill a number of roles, including […]

9 years ago

It’s really not a good idea. Just over one in four Irish people (26%) are experiencing symptoms of noise-induced hearing loss due to listening to music on their mobile phone at dangerously high volume levels for twice as long as is deemed safe. That figure came from research from Hidden Hearing Ireland to mark World […]

9 years ago

Do you earn more or less than the average? The average weekly earnings in Ireland were €716.07 in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to preliminary estimates of the Earnings and Labour Costs Quarterly release, published by the Central Statistics Office on Monday. That figure represented a rise of 0.6% from the same period of […]

9 years ago

An awful lot of effort went into this and it was well worth it. A few years’ back, you might remember a video made by a candidate for the presidency of the University of Limerick Students’ Union, Tommy Bolger. Based on The Wolf of Wall Street, which had just been released at the time, it […]

9 years ago

Excellent news on the jobs front. SuperValu have announced plans to open three new stores in Ireland in 2017, creating 190 jobs in the process. The announcement was made at the SuperValu National Conference in Killarney, where the supermarket chain announced a record performance of €2.67 billion in sales in 2016, an increase of 2.4% […]

9 years ago

Diplomatic to a fault, Lee decided it was best to let it slide. There is much excitement in the GAA and wider sporting communities this week about the Toughest Trade, with the first episode going out on RTÉ 2 this Wednesday night. This year, Donegal star Michael Murphy will try his hand at rugby with […]

9 years ago

“Immediately corrected,” they say. Hmmm. PwC, the accounting firm which manages the counting and collation of votes at the Academy Awards, have issued a statement to apologise for, and to clarify one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of the Oscars on Sunday night. When the time came to announce the most prestigious […]

9 years ago

It was his first time as host and he knocked it out of the park. Not in his wildest dreams could Jimmy Kimmel have imagined what would happen on what was his debut as Oscars host on Sunday night, but up until the moment that everyone was talking about, it was going quite swimmingly for […]

9 years ago

Easily the best thing he’s done since The Sixth Sense. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the first couple of hours since rising from bed on Monday morning, you’ll have known that one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of the Oscars occurred on Sunday night, when La La Land was […]

9 years ago

There’s only one award everyone will be talking about, but here’s who won big on the night. It’s almost unfair on all the deserving winners of awards at the Oscars on Sunday night that all people will remember it for is probably the most embarrassing moment in the history of the Academy Awards. Outside that […]

9 years ago

Start your Monday mornings with the best business podcast in the country. JOE is proud to announce the launch of an exciting new addition to its ever expanding audio and visual portfolio with The Capital B business podcast backed by AIB. Following on from the huge success of The GAA Hour and The Hard Yards […]

9 years ago

The Brady hunch. J-League Ogie Nolan’s Tullig Panthers** remain at the top of the J-League after Gameweek 25, but their lead has been cut significantly after a poor outing last time out, with less than 10 points now separating them from Alan Duggan’s Klippity Klopp. The biggest movers since the last round of fixtures were […]

9 years ago

No offence to Ryan, but it’s hard top Graham’s line-up tonight. Here’s what’s on the menu on the chat show circuit a little later on. The Late Late Show Philip Boucher-Hayes The journalist and broadcaster recently took to the gym in search of a buff body for the new series of What Are You Eating? […]

9 years ago

Screw science, there’s no way we agree with number one. There’s no doubting that Radiohead are one of the biggest and most influential bands of their generation. There’s also no denying that they have produced plenty of music over the years that has a distinctly sombre tone, songs that can instantly change a listener’s mood […]

9 years ago

Low-fat ice cream could soon be coming your way. The regulations regarding the manufacture of ice cream in Ireland are likely to change for the first time in 65 years following a proposal to revoke the regulations, specifically those in relation to milk and sugar content. The proposal is being made by The Minister of […]

9 years ago

Calling all Paddys! Given that it’s the name of our patron saint, Patrick or its many equivalents (Paddy, Padraig, Patricia etc.) is a very popular name in Ireland and those with any one of those monikers could bag themselves a free night in a hotel in Clare next month. In a very generous gesture to […]

9 years ago

Hopefully you don’t plan on spending too much time outdoors in the next few days. The strong winds and driving rain brought on by Storm Doris earlier this week have eased since the chaos of Wednesday night and Thursday morning, but the weather in Ireland isn’t about to improve spectacularly anytime soon. According to Met […]

9 years ago

Ever been on a J1 to the US? Chances are you’ve heard of Four Loko. A flavoured malt beverage, Four Loko was once marketed as an alcoholic energy drink before parent company Four Brewing Company removed caffeine, guarana, and taurine from the products in 2010 after it was banned in several states due to the […]

9 years ago

The first acts will be announced next Wednesday. Fans of the one of the most popular Irish summer festivals can breathe a huge sigh of relief after organisers confirmed that it would return to Marlay Park this summer. It was announced on Thursday afternoon that the festival will be taking place at the Dublin venue […]

9 years ago

The accent is pretty impressive to be fair. Some will always recognise him as Al Bundy from Married with Children, but in more recent times, TV viewers have come to associate Ed O’Neill with the role of Jay Prithett in the brilliant Modern Family. O’Neill was in attendance at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Global Green Party in […]

9 years ago

A one-way trip to the US for €69 doesn’t sound bad at all. Norwegian Air have officially announced details of ultra-cheap flights to the United States from Ireland, starting in July. The Norwegian announcement had been widely anticipated and was confirmed on Thursday morning as the airline revealed details of 10 new routes and 38 […]

9 years ago

Storm Doris has wreaked havoc across the country this morning. 56,000 ESB customers throughout the country are without power this morning as a result of electrical faults caused by Storm Doris. Still active across the country on Thursday morning, particularly in the north and east of the country, the storm has carried gale force winds […]

9 years ago

Accepted wisdom has been turned on its head. For years, we’ve been told that we should aim to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day as part of a healthy diet. Not only did the term roll rather easily off the tongue, it seemed a very achievable target for most mortals […]

9 years ago

Big changes ahead. Students at Trinity College will have Christmas exams and start their academic year earlier from 2018/19 onwards after proposed changes to the academic calendar this week. According to the Irish Times, the changes were approved by a majority of the university 200 fellows or senior academics, having previously gained the support of […]

9 years ago

Damn nature, you scary! We had been given plenty of warning, but everyone was still taken a little off guard by the force of Storm Doris, which was has caused power outages, travel chaos and the cancellation of a number of flights between Ireland and the UK on Thursday. According to Met Éireann, the strong […]

9 years ago

Make sure to check with your airline for information before travelling. A significant number of flights between Ireland and the UK have been cancelled on Thursday due to bad weather here and across the water. Storm Doris battered Ireland with strong winds and heavy rain on Thursday and the situation isn’t much better in the […]

9 years ago

Up to 20,000 homes are believed to be without power after Ireland was hit by a storm overnight. Fallen trees are causing havoc on roads throughout Ireland this morning after the country was battered by strong winds and heavy rain from Storm Doris overnight. A number of commuter services have also been affected, meanwhile, with […]

9 years ago

What do you think? The way social media apps keep adding new features that are similar to what exists elsewhere, pretty soon they’ll end up almost exactly the same as one another. After WhatsApp followed the lead of Instagram and launched a feature more associated with something you’d see on Snapchat, Instagram themselves have rolled […]

9 years ago

If it’s beautiful beaches you’re after, Kerry is the place to go. The Kingdom is home to four of the top ten beaches in Ireland according to TripAdvisor, who revealed their annual travellers’ choice list of the best beaches by country, by region and in the world overall today. As far as Ireland is concerned, […]

9 years ago

Meet Dawn and Dale… Fans of Gogglebox Ireland will be introduced to the latest stars of the show when Dawn and Dale from Cork make their small screen debut. Partners and best friends, Dawn and Dale met six years ago while studying the same course at Cork Institute of Technology and now both work together […]

9 years ago

Who’s heading to Ballinlough Castle in June? British electro-pop outfit Metronomy and American alt-country collective Lambchop are amongst the first acts to be announced for the Body and Soul festival in Westmeath this summer. The festival returns to Ballinlough Castle for an eighth year from 23-25 June, with Vitalic, La Femme, Elaine Mai and Kelly-Anne […]

9 years ago

Serves him right. Road rage is not something that should ever be encouraged, but the sight of a female cyclist in London getting her own back on a passenger in a van who yelled sexist taunts in her direction is a very satisfying one indeed. Dashcam footage from a man driving a motorbike behind the […]

9 years ago

Fantastic news. Ed Sheeran has confirmed that Irish singer Ryan McMullan will be one of the support acts on the UK and European legs of his world tour later this year. https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/834340435699044352 Sheeran confirmed that McMullan, from Portaferry in Down, will join him for a series of gigs starting in Turin in Italy on March […]

9 years ago

People shouldn’t really have to be warned about this… Gardaí in Limerick have warned motorists not to leave their vehicle keys in the ignition after a number of thefts were reported in the city in recent days. According to the Limerick Leader, a car was stolen on Denmark Street in the early hours of last […]

9 years ago

We’re talkin’ softball… It says a lot about the way The Simpsons has gone that most people would accept that the vast majority of the show’s best episodes were made well before the turn of the millennium. Thankfully for fans of the show’s glory years, most of those episodes still hold up well more than […]

9 years ago

Not exactly something you want associated with the Minister for Health. It’s been an eventful couple of weeks in Irish politics and particularly in the Fine Gael party, where speculation continues about the future of party leader and Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Kenny’s future as party leader is uncertain at best and amongst the many contenders […]

9 years ago